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Easter Fun Facts

Happy Easter from Ginger!

Easter is a joyous holiday celebrated by Christians in early spring. There are manydifferent Easter traditions, and our favorite is the Easter egg hunt.

Roots in the Middle Ages
While the Easter Bunny may seem like a modern concept, the idea of a bunnybringing eggs for Easter is traced back to at least the 17th century. The Easter EggHunt is a game where decorated, chocolate or candy eggs are hidden for children tofind.

Easter egg hunts can be fun with just a few people or an entire town. According tothe Guinness Book of World Records, the largest egg hunt in the world included
80,000 eggs hidden in an American town of just 950 people.

Virtual Easter Eggs
In today’s electronic world, virtual Easter eggs have hatched on the scene. In theworld of high-tech, internet and gaming, interesting spinoffs of the “Easter egg” haveemerged.

A “virtual Easter egg” is a hidden feature, message or joke that can be found in videogames, websites and even movies. For example, websites “hide” eggs in their sitesand ask users to “find” them.

We have spent some time searching and here are our favorite Google Easter Eggs!
Enjoy!

1. Do the Harlem Shake.
If you search “do the Harlem shake” on Youtube, and wait a minute, theentire search page and video previews will do their own digital Harlem Shakeright in your browser.

2. Do a barrel roll!
Searching this phrase on the Google home page will cause the page to spin
360 degrees horizontally, giving you the same perspective as if you were in arolling barrel.

3. Have Gmail wash your clothes.
If you go to the Gmail Suggest a Feature Page, you can suggest Gmail to do your laundry. (Go to Gmail > New Features > Help > Additional Resources > Suggest a Feature > Feature Suggestions Page > Helpful Additions.)